Clapp, Dr. Harold 1909-1961

CLAPP, WHITE, RICE

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 10/30/2014 at 15:08:03

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
Sept. 4, 1961

DR. HAROLD CLAPP,
PROMINENT EDUCATOR
SUCCUMBS SUNDAY

Born June 14, 1909, in Jamestown, N.Y., Dr. Clapp was the son of Marvin L. and Mary L. White Clapp. He was graduated from Jamestown high school in 1926 and received his B.A. degree from Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y., in 1930, after spending his junior year in France, at the University of Nancy. He obtained his M.A. in 1933 and his Ph.D. in 1935, both from the University of Wisconsin.

His teaching career began with an instructorship at Colgate University, from 1930 to 1932. After receiving his advanced degrees, he taught four years at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio, just before coming to Grinnell in 1939.

He had traveled frequently in Europe, most recently in the summer of 1960, when he did research in France and Switzerland. In 1947-48 he was on leave from Grinnell to serve as director of the University of Delaware's junior-year-abroad group in Geneva, Switzerland.

In 1931, Dr. Clapp married Laura M. Rice, and they became the parents of three sons, all of whom have attended Grinnell--Charles M. Clapp of St. Louis, Mo., a 1958 graduate, Robert A. Clapp of Custer, S. Dak., who was graduated this year, and James E. Clapp, now a sophomore in the college.

Besides Mrs. Clapp and the three sons, Dr. Clapp is survived by a brother, Dr. George Edward Clapp of Washington, Pa.